Part 40 (1/2)
”When do your AB examinations start?”
”Five days hence, sir”
”I hope you are in readiness for them”
Transfixed with alarm, I held one shoe in the air ”Sir,” I protested, ”you kno my days have been passed with you rather than with the professors How can I enact a farce by appearing for those difficult finals?”
Sri Yukteswar's eyes were turned piercingly on mine ”You ive cause for your father and other relatives to criticize your preference for ashram life Just promise me that you will be present for the examinations; answer them the best way you can”
Uncontrollable tears were coursing down my face I felt that Master's command was unreasonable, and that his interest was, to say the least, belated
”I will appear if you wish it,” I said amidst sobs ”But no time remains for proper preparation” Under my breath I s in answer to the questions!”
When I entered the her day at my usual hour, I presented my bouquet with a certain one air
”Mukunda, has the Lord ever failed you, at an examination or elsewhere?”
”No, sir,” I responded war flood
”Not laziness but burning zeal for God has prevented you frouru said kindly After a silence, he quoted, ”'Seek ye first the kingdos shall be added unto you'” {FN23-4}
For the thousandth time, I felt my burdens lifted in Master's presence When we had finished our early lunch, he suggested that I return to the PANTHI
”Does your friend, Rohouse?”
”Yes, sir”
”Get in touch with him; the Lord will inspire him to help you with the examinations”
”Very well, sir; but Romesh is unusually busy He is the honor man in our class, and carries a heavier course than the others”
Master waved aside o”
I bicycled back to the PANTHI The first person I house coh his days were quite free, he obligingly agreed to my diffident request
”Of course; I am at your service” He spent several hours of that afternoon and of succeeding days in coaching me in lish literature will be centered in the route of Childe Harold,” he told et an atlas at once”
I hastened to the home of my Uncle Sarada and borrowed an atlas
Romesh marked the European map at the places visited by Byron's roathered around to listen to the tutoring
”Roly,” one of them commented to me at the end of a session ”Usually only fifty per cent of the questions are about the books; the other half will involve the authors'
lives”